The Transformation of the Organizational Field in the Education for the Blind and Special Support Education

モウキョウイク ニオケル ソシキ フィールド ノ ヘンヨウ ト トクベツ シエン キョウイク

サトウ, タカノリ

Sato, Takanori

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

強制的同型性(coercive isomorphism)

模倣的同型性(mimetic isomorphism)

規範的同型性(normative isomorphism)

特別支援教育(special support education)

The purpose of this paper is to consider the influence of educational policies of structure and change of special education in Japan, with a particular focus on education for the blind. In doing so, we make clear institutional realities which regulates and changes the trend of education for the blind, and examine how the educational organizations for the blind respond to the realities from a viewpoint of the conservation of organizational identity. For this study plan, to analyze occurred phenomena, we refer to the new institutionalism in organizational analysis that is the one of the main theoretical paradigms in organization theory as explanatory framework. Especially, we direct our attention to structural changes in domain of special education in the 1970's. In this period, Objects of special education widely expand and those of education for blind began to change in quality and quantity. This situation brings drastic changes to educational act which supposes fundamentally educational organization for the blind and requires that existing organizational practices be changed. In the conclusion, we suggest that changing process of education for the blind means not only a change in education for the blind but also process of isomorphism for all educational organization.